Sports Premium

Our Vision

At St Mary Magdalene Primary School we aim to establish a sporting culture that enables and encourages all children to play and enjoy sport. We have established a number of after-school clubs for our pupils offering a wide variety of sporting opportunities for our children. We enter numerous school sport competitions to allow children to be competitive and are constantly developing our PE programme.

We aim to:

Improve the quality of the school P.E. programme by:

Auditing staff to highlight development areas

Revisiting our policy and schemes of work in the light of the Revised National Curriculum

Provide additional training and coaching for children in school teams to develop their skills as part of our gifted and talented offer

Enter teams into a wide range of school sport competitions

Create inter-school sport competitions to provide further competitive opportunities for children

Deliver an exciting and memorable School Sports Week every year

Link sports events to world events such as Olympics, World Cup and Wimbledon

Provide regular swimming lessons for all KS2 children

Primary School’s Sports Funding

What is the Sports Premium?

The Government is providing funding of £150 million per annum for academic years 2014 – 2020 to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding will be allocated to primary school Headteachers.

The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools. OFSTED will play a significant role in ensuring that schools target this funding in areas which will lead to clear outcomes in raising standards and opportunities in PE and school sport for all children throughout the Primary Phase. All schools will receive a lump sum of £8,000 plus a premium of £5 per pupil for the next two academic years.

Purpose of funding

Schools will have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.

Extend after-school sports activities. We now offer a range of school clubs, accessed by children from Key Stages one and two. We have built capacity by employing a sports coach to work alongside our teachers.

Develop a safe but active use of the playground at break times.

Pay for sports coaches to help organize lunchtime tournaments and skill development opportunities in football, basketball and multi-skills

Provide opportunities for children to compete. We feel it is important that children have the chance to represent their school and take part in competitive sport against other schools

Develop children’s leadership skills in sport through the role of Sports Ambassadors